Merge Consecutive Paragraphs

This is a very often-used option. It joins consecutive paragraphs together with BR tags, in case the author
intended one return to mean a linebreak and two returns to be a new paragraph. In fact if they use Word that
way it generates something like this:

Note: This option is applied as the lowest priority. If some paragraphs got transformed
to different HTML elements via the HTML options or the Styles tab, they won't be available for merging.

Smarty Pants

Use this option to convert ASCII quotes, dashes and ellipses to real typography, similar to Gruber's
SmartyPants filter. It's most
useful for curling your quotes and converting the double hypen to an em dash.

Original ASCII

Conversion

Unicode

Em dashes -- not en dashes -- set off a parenthetical thought

Em dashes — not en dashes — set off a parenthetical thought

U+2014

What the...

What the…

U+2026

Typographer's apostrophe and single 'quotes'

Typographer's apostrophe and single ‘quotes’

U+2018U+2019

"Let the Good Times Roll" by the Cars.

“Let the Good Times Roll” by the Cars.

U+201CU+201D

Charset Encoding

UTF-8

No HTML entities are necessary, except for <, > and &. All other
characters use a variable number of bytes to encode the full Unicode space.

This is a seven-bit clean encoding, anything greater than character 127 is encoded with
an entity.

Pseudo Styles

Pseudo styles are "made up" by MangleBracket — they don't derive from any particular
character or paragraph formatting in Word, they are more like a general category of elements.

Recovered Headings – These are paragraphs that got promoted to headings
because of the criteria you specified on the HTML tab, such as a large font
or all uppercase.

Indented – These are paragraphs with a non-zero left margin.

Horizontal Rules – Word has no concept of a horizontal rule, all it has is paragraph
border on each of the four sides. For top and bottom borders, MangleBracket converts those to this
pseudo style which defaults to a rendering of HR. You can use an alternate rendering though, such as
a DIV with inline style to give a border.

Links, Anchors and Images should be self-explanitory.

Base HREF

You only need this if you have relative URLs in your A or IMG tags, so that your
links will work and your images will show up in the preview view.

If you do provide a base
href, make sure it's an absolute url to a directory (not a file), such as http://mysite.com/stuff/.

Helpful Tips

Code View is interactive. Hover over an element to see which Style it's using. Click it to select
that style in the Styles pane.

Preview is interactive and sharable. Double-click or hover to see which
Style is applied. Go to Share This and you'll see the public URL which can be
passed around and used by anybody, such as a copy editor or whoever's reviewing and
approving.

Getting the source: Either click on the Code View and do Ctrl-A/Ctrl-C (Select All, Copy), or you can save
it by clicking the Get Plaintext link in the lower right.